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-HAS BAGGED 22 ALLIED AERbs
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Capt Boelke of. the German- aero
corps has brought down 22 allied
aeroplanes. lie always goes up alone,
actingas pilot and operating mount
ed guns.
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, A pigeon in Whitinsville, every day
alights on the window ledge of Dr.
Robert A. Spratt and waits for him
to give it a bath. Dr. Spratt sprays
the bird with water from a bulb
syringe.
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One -Berkshire, Mass., man buys
shoes so large that they fit either
foot. He also buys trousers large
enough so in case he gets .them on,
wrong side to hewill suffer no dis-'comfort
I COCHRAN'S. COMMENT
PROSPERITY. Being unable, to
make the prosperity of 1916 invisi
ble to the naked eye, and not want
Wilson to get credit for it, Republi-
cans argue that it is entirely due to.
the war and that the country will
go to the demnition bow-wows
when the war is over. However,
one of the country's great authori
ties on business and finance, Theo
dore Price, editor of""Commerce and
Finance," New York, says:
"It will be admitted that whatever
profit fhe United States has derived
from the war in Europe is measured
exclusively by the increase in the
balance of trade in our facor. As our
imports have varied but slightly
since 1912, the increase in our ex
ports nust include everything that
we have gained from the , expansion
of our foreign trade.
Price" then says that our maximum
possible gain from the war up to
June 30, 1916, is ?2,130,000,000r or
$21.30 per capita, while the- national
wealth has increased$41,000,000,000
or $410 per capita., and asks:
"If the war in Europe has been the
only, reason for our prosperity, by
what alchemy has the gain of only
$2,130,000,000 from our foreign
trade been multiplied nearly 20 times
in the growth of our national
wealth?"
Politicians, however, can make
figures play queer pranks. If we have
prosnerity under a G. O. P. adminis
tration, according to Republicans, "
the G. O. P., is responsible for it. If we
have it under a Democratic adminis
tration, it isn't real prosperity, or if
it is real it won't last unless you put
the.G. O. P. back in power. They
think Mark Hanna issued a patent to
himself and the G. O. P. on the Full
Dinner Pail, and-that there can't pos
sible be no sich thing under Demo
cratic rule.
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The washerwoman has a bar,
knuckle fight for existence.
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